I love music, books, poetry, law, hours, minutes, years, the world, this life. The Bruegel room at Kunst Historische. Schubert, Ella Fitzgerald, Kora and cello ensembles talking Heads, old Irish and other folk ballads, Bonga, opera (Mozart, Philip Glass). I hate the horrible suffering in the world, ignorance, armaments, Donald Trump and Victor Urban, and for pure evil, Putin. …. I love too my life, the spring air (but winter, summer, autumn, winter air also a joy). I love and admire my family (sister, brother, and progeny), Thich Nhat Hahn, and my close friends. I like smiling and chatting with any cashier in a grocery store, anyone really. I love languages. Roasted vegetables in olive oil too. Most people who know me would say I’m a bit eccentric, kind and loving, sensitive, artistic, witty, and a good singer. I care deeply about ethics and the tragic state of the world today. Very clever with words. Often somewhat inscrutable.